Killarney, Ireland shops, streets, pubs and restaurants

killarney is a beautiful place to visit for at least three big reasons first of all because it's in ireland then there's the town itself which is quite charming and it's famous for the lakes and lush natural beauty all around it part of the killarney national park so perhaps the main reason that visitors come here is for the natural beauty of the lakes and the famous ride around the peninsula called the ring of kerry but here you'll see that the town itself is also a great reason to come and stay and spend some time in this episode we are going to focus on the town we'll have a look at the main streets the shops and will take you in several of their excellent restaurants more than a dozen of the pubs and restaurants feature irish music on a daily basis such as scruffy's bar families are always welcome in the pubs of ireland where local people usually outnumber the visitors music is one of the many ways that traditional irish culture is being maintained and nourished in these modern days [Music] killarney is the most popular town in the country for visitors outside of dublin and in this program you will see why killarney is in county carry just about three hours from dublin by car or train it's a fairly small town with just three main streets and it's about 800 meters from one end to the other population is just fifteen thousand people and yet there's plenty to see and do the streets are filled with really good shops and some excellent restaurants and a lot of pubs with food conversation drinks and music another special feature of the town is that most of the shops and restaurants are family owned rather than being part of a big chain and the typical big high fancy stores that you see all over the world these shops have their own unique character and the people who work there are friendly our visit happened in the month of may which is considerably less crowded than the summer perhaps one of the only problems about killarney is that it's too popular and it could get a little congested if you're here in the peak season of june and july and yet the weather in the summer is really quite lovely that's what brings people here ireland does not usually get very hot of course you're going to have some rain the most famous element of irish weather that's what keeps it green keeps the streets clean [Music] this is the center of town where new street high street and main street all come together at a crossroads killarney does have nice white sidewalks in the downtown area with trees and some benches and the shops each seem to be unique it's not like going to a big shopping mall with a diverse mix of shops restaurants and pubs cars drive down the street so this section is not a pedestrian zone but with this layout it's easy to take a comfortable stroll some other irish towns have a pedestrian zone such as in galway and kinsale and parts of dublin but most towns don't around the corner you'll get to plunkett street which is a little different it's more narrow it's one lane and you see people are just strolling in the road occasionally it is reserved just for pedestrians it's much more friendly to people out strolling hardly any cars come down plunkett and when they do they'll drive slowly so it's very safe at the end plunkett merges into college street which is also a very nice retail neighborhood being so pedestrian friendly it supports a nice range of shops and restaurants and there are even some airbnbs that you could rent here we're gonna drop in on a handful of restaurants and talk to the owners and workers and get a feeling for the food and the place the four star international hotel is one of the finest and oldest hotels in the city established in 1906. inside there are a couple of restaurants including hannigan's an excellent gastropub so it's called hannigan's restaurant and we have lots of different irish traditional foods like beef rose lamb stews everything and service potatoes traditional irish again vegetables and lovely desserts and everything and here comes the one [Music] some of the dishes you could enjoy here include seared rump of farm fresh lamb roast duckling fillet of organic salmon and some vegetarian dishes chickpea and spinach burger and vegetarian curry the international hotel has been operated since 1976 by the present owner sean and frankie coyne the laurels is a famous and traditional killarney pub which has been run by the o'leary family for almost a century and little has changed in that time like many others in ireland this would be considered a gastropub with high quality food and typical for killarney you will get excellent service here and eat at the bar if you wish another popular restaurant is cronin's and like so many of these killarney restaurants it's multi-generational ownership welcome to cronin's restaurant opened in 1957 by my grandmother and the third generation there's no fort that we're aware of at the moment we're over from 12 15 to 9 o'clock every evening local cuisine or from local projects very good pronouns restaurant calendar they take pride in serving their guests the freshest locally sourced produce such as smoked salmon from kenmar award-winning ring of carry lamb irish hereford beef and you can't beat that friendly smiling service another legendary killarney pub is danny mans with live irish music most nights and full-service menu it must be acknowledged that some critics dismiss killarney as a touristic town full of bus tours and all that and yes while it is very popular with visitors it has managed to hang on to a traditional feeling it's one of the most attractive towns in the country which is a big part of the reason why so many tourists come here let's check out another family-run gastropub the porterhouse and the portal house gastropub near kenari and we do a wide range of dishes lots of steaks and fish and chips a bit of everything sweet everybody's palace vegetarian vegan right across the board very good and very busy big restaurant very busy yeah live music every night they've also got stuffed mushrooms kenmar prawns gourmet burgers they've got porterhouse style fajitas and they are renowned for their dry aged chargrilled angus steaks all the produce is sourced from local suppliers it's a large restaurant but the way they've divided up the space it all feels very cozy and intimate located on that pedestrian friendly plunkett street you can also enjoy some international fine dining and what's the cuisine that's the french french and irish cuisines yeah and the name of russia yeah french and irish fries so you are not limited to irish food in a pub in killarney there is a big range of choices available for you including french also on high street you've got another hybrid restaurant with italian and irish salvadors another place owned and operated by the third generation and here i can personally vouch for the food because i had a fantastic irish dew served steaming hot one of the most traditional meals of the country washed down with some guinness yeah it's a salvador's restaurant and what kind of food oh mixed with everything everything pizza yeah stew pizza stew irish curry meat veggie it's kind of like a bistro my grandparents started up as a chipmunk in the 60s or 70s the restaurants that i'm showing here are typical of many of the other restaurants that you're going to find in town so i am not pretending this is the selection of the top five restaurants in killarney there are many excellent places to pick from such as max on main street while tourists are a big part of their market local people also eat in these restaurants and chop in the stores these repeat customers inspire quality control so the businesses have to do a good job year round to provide excellent service quality food and decent prices and they do we're here in mac's restaurant in main street in killarney county kerry by the lakes of killarney and we are a fish and steakhouse and we do shepherd's pie we do a nice seafood chowder lots of irish cuisine lots of european dishes and we welcome all locals and european and international customers you will find irish hospitality here at its very very best a slow trickle of tourists began arriving in killarney way back in the mid 1700s a century later in 1853 the railroad arrived and that began to really increase tourism right next to max we come upon j.m reedy a legendary business that opened up back in the 1870s jm reedy is probably the most fascinating of all the restaurant pubs in killarney because it's about the oldest and one of the largest and most diverse originally it was three separate stores there was a grocer a bakery and a hardware agricultural supply store later it was consolidated into the one diverse business that we see today there's a pub restaurant and a bakery it sprawls over quite a large area and it includes a central open courtyard that's a very popular community gathering spot for private parties as well as open dining and drinking and it's a sometimes rock club don't think that killarney is strictly old-fashioned irish music this is a very hip town with a lot of young people [Music] [Applause] we have many more movies about ireland including another one about killarney and we cover dingle galway connemara dublin and other places so be sure to look for them in our collection we frequently upload new movies so please subscribe to our channel and click that little alarm bell so you'll be notified and if you enjoyed the movie how about a thumbs up and we always welcome comments down below or if you have questions about the destination make note and we'll answer them thanks for watching

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Length: 12min 17sec (737 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 10 2020